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Mariya Butyrskaya
Мария Бутырская
Birth at
28 June 1972
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Maria Butyrskaya is a Russian figure skater, the first Russian champion in women’s singles, Honored Master of Sports, three-time European champion and six-time champion of Russia.
Mary began to skate at the age of five. The first coach considered her an incredibly hardworking and talented child, the girl was the best in her group, won all competitions. A few years later, the coach went on maternity leave, and Butyrskaya was in the group of another coach, with whom relations did not develop. According
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Maria Butyrskaya is a Russian figure skater, the first Russian champion in women’s singles, Honored Master of Sports, three-time European champion and six-time champion of Russia.
Mary began to skate at the age of five. The first coach considered her an incredibly hardworking and talented child, the girl was the best in her group, won all competitions. A few years later, the coach went on maternity leave, and Butyrskaya was in the group of another coach, with whom relations did not develop. According to her, he humiliated her and convinced her of her mediocrity, as a result he declared unpromising and began to insist on her expulsion from the CSKA figure skating school.
Butyrskaya did not skate for a long time, lost faith and gained extra pounds. When her first coach found out about this, she convinced the student to continue to skate, arranging Maria in the group of Vladimir Kovalev.
However, the success of Butyrskaya was allowed by cooperation with the famous Soviet coach.
Yelena Tchaikovsky . The figure skater believed that Elena Anatolyevna managed to help her gain faith in the fact that she is able to become a champion of Europe and the world and find her own “ballet” style. Mary's programs were characterized by frequent use of classical music.
As part of the 1999 World Cup, Maria Butyrskaya was able to win a gold medal, putting a spectacular point in the triumph of the Russian team at this competition, which helped her become the first world champion in the history of post-Soviet Russia. In the same season, Maria took second place in the final of the 1998-1999 Grand Prix, she managed to beat the Uzbek figure skater Tatiana Malinina.
Maria finished her sports career in 2003. She performed very little in ice shows, claiming that she never liked to perform in show programs that ended the competition. Butyrsky always liked to compete. Since then, she has worked as a coach, mainly with young children.
Maria Butyrskaya appeared on the screens several times as an actress. In particular, she had to participate in the filming of the series.
Parallel to love. In 2004.